I found an old painting I had purchased over 20 years ago at this estate sale of a 90 plus year old lady who lived down the road from me at the time. The portrait frightened my daughter who was maybe 3 at the time and I tucked it away and at some point after several moves and many years it ended up in a box in my basement-it is a painting of a civil war navy officer and when I realized what it was I took the frame apart to check out the painting. It was in an old wood hand made frame, with a handmade backing and nails holding it in and old wire to hang it with. When I finally got out what I thought was card board behind it the picture I was even more surprised. When I turned the card board piece over to take out the painting I discovered the cardboard had printing on the other side. It was actually an old advertisement of some kind. I have searched and asked everyone I know and spent hours looking everywhere online and can find NOTHING about this. Help if you can please! I am more curious than ever now.
The flip side of cardboard is colored that old deco blue with the words Streamline going across the top in yellow and then below that a picture of a brick home with a green roof and a chimney in the front of house, green door, long windows, trees and green lawn. Under the house picture it says in red letters BRICK- CRAFT and then under that in black it says Make your own bricks- Build your own house. Any help about this add or what it is from or time period would be great--it would also help me date when this oil painting from the civil war was placed into this rickety frame and help date the painting as well.
